RE: Zebra Bar Code printing via IP

[pault@xxxxxxxxx (Paul Tykodi)]

Dear Fritz,

Zebra bar code printers require a trigger character to be received prior to 
executing a label. The character is called the "format character" in Zebra 
printer terms. If this character is not found in the data stream received by 
the printer, all of the data is flushed and no labels are printed. Typically 
the default format character is the caret ^ symbol.

You should check to make sure that host print transform function is still 
enabled on your remote output queue and also check to see whether the default 
translation table used by this feature might have been somehow changed during 
the upgrade process from V4R1 to V4R2.

HTH

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019




Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:15:47 -0800
From:   "Fritz Hayes" <fhayes@spiritone.com>
Subject:        Zebra Bar Code printing via IP

Hi All,
I have a customer who could print bar codes under V4R1 to a Zebra 140 
printer.  They use the LPR/LPD AS/400 services through a HP Jet Direct 
box.  Now that V4R2 is up on the machine, the printing doesn't work!  
You can see the data reach the printer, but it refuses to spit out 
anything.  Unfortunately, it works fine when printing from Windows 95 
(don't you just hate it when these things happen!).

We've tried just about everything in the Remote Writer config, including 
various mixes of 'text' and 'raw' for the Remote Outq parameter.

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Fritz Hayes
fhayes@spiritone.com



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